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Like what I mean by that is like it's a formal, intimate part of the actual company of Polygon and what their goals are.
Yeah, I think Solana was the last person, last chain person.
To be able to do that.
To be able to do that, yeah.
Yeah, that's a good take.
Yeah, so Nikita Beer has been the subject of a lot of crypto Twitter's ire this last week, mainly for kind of like nuking a lot of the algorithm around crypto Twitter content.
He's a product lead at X. Yeah, he's a product lead at X. And he's also an advisor to the Solana Foundation, which this relates to both of these two stories.
So smart cash tags, what are they?
They're these interactive tickers.
So the way that a ticker used to work on Twitter is you would do like a dollar sign BTC and then you would click into that ticker and then it would show you all tweets.
It would filter all the tweets of the universe by tweets that had that same ticker in it.
So you could see what people were talking about, about that same financial asset.
That works in TradFi where there's a very narrow number of tickers that are all kind of orderly and non-overlapping because there's not that many.
Doesn't work in the crypto context.
Do you remember Blinks, Ryan?
We talked about Blinks like once or twice.
Blockchain Links, something that was pioneered by the Solana Foundation.
This uses Blinks.
This uses Solana Blinks.
And so it connects to a token on Solana or you would presume on an Ethereum layer too.